How To Release and Renew IP Address In Windows with Ip Release and Renew

Windows operating system provide ipconfig command for network related administration like show ip address, request IP address from DHCP set IP address etc. In this tutorial we will look how can we release and renew IP address. For more information about ipconfig command read following tutorial.

Open Command Prompt

We can open command prompt in different ways. The easiest way is Start -> Run and type cmd and press enter like following screenshot. Click open will start MD-DOS.

Open Command Prompt

List Current IP Address

We can list current interfaces and their related IP addresses with the ipconfig command like below.

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>ipconfig

List Current IP Address

Release All IP Address

As we see that we have IP address assigned to the interface Local Area Connection. We should first release the IP address with ipconfig /relase . This will release all IP addresses of all interfaces

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>ipconfig/release

Release IP Address

Release Specific Interface IP Address

In previous example we have released all interfaces all IP addresses. This is not useful if we have multiple interfaces and we only want single interfaces IP address to release. We can specify the interface name to release given interface IP address. In this example we will only release IP address of Local Area Connection . Be warned that the name of the interface should be correct to work properly.

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>ipconfig/release"Local Area Connection"

Release Specific Interface IP Address

Renew IP Address

In order to get new IP address from DHCP server we should renew our IP address with ipconfig /renew command like below.